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Summer is here and everyone is thinking about holidays and airport transfers, including from Papplewick, Linby and Newstead Village. We at Nottingham Chauffeurs VIP & Minibuses are 1 of the leading companies for professional airport transfers and minibus hire, established 2007.

We are long distance specialists focusing on comfort for airport and seaport taxi and chauffeur transfers to Heathrow, Luton, Gatwick, Stansted, Birmingham airports and Dover & Southampton cruise terminals. Our Mercedes V-class MPV’s and Mercedes E-class saloons are the right choice for comfort on long distance travel.

Established in 2007, we have a long successful history of providing that professional airport taxi (Transfers) service to these remote rural communities for mainly business clients who are fortunate to live in these beautiful country side villages. Holiday and leisure clients quickly realised they too, could book reliable and comfortable Mercedes saloons and MPV’s for their holidays.

Many of these villages, dont have taxi companies, probably non of them, because of their small size and limited demand for taxis to set up there. This didn’t stop us gaining clients though, as these villages all have clients who prefer the professional touch that a chauffeur company provides.

We are happy to take enquiries or bookings from Aslockton, Scarrington, Bingham, Saxondale, Whatton, East Bridgford, Shelford and Gunthorpe airport transfers to Heathrow airport, Gatwick airport, Luton airport, Stansted airport, Birmingham airport, Manchester airport, we do occasional fit EMA in, although its not an airport we generally service, as its such short distance.

We also provide cars and minibuses for London central, sporting events, Southampton cruise terminals and a range of wedding cars or wedding minibuses.

We are fully licensed in line with taxi regulations and council and government guidelines, with suitable insurance and public liability insurance, making sure your safe in our cars and minibuses with fully licensed chauffeur drivers.

Lady chauffeur is also available in our Mercedes V-class 6 passenger MPV with advanced requests.

Nottingham Chauffeurs VIP & Minibuses We are frequently called upon for Nottingham Forest and Notts County away match travel for corporate and business clients, occasionally enthusiastic Forest & Notts County fans who just want a little comfort for an away game.

With our range of Mercedes E-class saloons and Mercedes MPV’s, we can cover single, couples and small group Derby away game travel from across the Nottinghamshire region to any UK match.

Corporate travel clients Nottingham enjoy the comfort and space provided in our Mercedes Benz vehicles, and driven by professional chauffeurs with many years experience in this sector.

We are happy to set up accounts with companies wishing to use our Nottingham chauffeur and minibus services for sporting event travel, airport transfers, chauffeur driven cars or sightseeing tours Nottinghamshire or UK wide.

Established in 2007 to provide affordable high quality airport transfers, chauffeurs and minibuses across Nottingham, Beeston and Bramcote.Beeston and Bramcote is south west of Nottingham city centre, and a commuter route between Nottingham and Derby using the A52, cars and minibuses navigate across both cities very easily.

We have an extensive client base across Bramcote, Beeston, Beeston Rylands and Beeston Fields, but we take bookings from Chilwell, Toton, Attenborough, Wollaton, Trowell and Stapleford for airport taxis (Transfers)

We use Mercedes E-class saloons as standard, these offer comfort and space for up to 3 passengers depending on luggage.

Our new Mercedes V-class 6 passenger MPV EXTRA LONG WHEELBASE is extremely popular for small groups of 4 to 6, including families who often struggle for quality minibuses (MPV’s) where lots of luggage applies. This vehicle has ISO FIX child seat brackets for babies seats, and we are happy to look after these seats for your return home from the airports.

We are fully licensed and insured in line with council and government guidelines for taxis & private hire vehicles, only we do not do taxi work at all.

High quality vehicles and affordable rates has made Nottingham Chauffeurs VIP & Minibuses a well sought after company across Nottingham, Beeston, Bramcote, Long Eaton, West Bridgford, Gamston and Edwalton as well as Nottinghamshire generally.

We have supplied cars and executive MPV’s for many Nottingham business’s and corporate clients covering all aspects of chauffeur services.

Some of the business’s we service past and present include Experian, Capital One, ZF, Nottingham Forest, Imperial Tobacco, and vast amounts of clients responsible for booking their own travel

We offer airport taxis (Transfers) from Beeston, Bramcote and Nottingham to the following

Our Mercedes V-class MPV’s are perfect for small group movements and of course large families.

We cover all across Nottinghamshire, including West Bridgford, Gamston, Edwalton, Long Eaton, Beeston, Bilborough, Gedling, Arnold, Bestwood, Top Valley, Hucknall, Eastwood, Bingham, Calverton, and all the smaller villages in between for airport transfers in minibuses, MPV’s and saloon cars.

We are long distance specialists, and cover all UK airports, but may refuse EMA unless its short notice and we have availability. This airport is very close to our base and our minimum hire often excludes it.

Southampton cruise terminal is very popular for our minibuses, due to the extra luggage clients can take. Nottingham minibus hire is ideal for small groups travelling in minibuses from Nottingham to Southampton.

London central and sporting event travel like Royal Ascot, Twickenham, Aintree, Cheltenham, Wembley, Wimbledon, O2 Arena, Glastonbury and Silverstone are all popular travel in our Nottingham minibuses and Mercedes E-class saloons. Wait & return bookings are essential at many sporting events, and single way bookings may not be taken.

East Midlands airport is so close to our base area of Long Eaton, we dont unfortunately service it, we only have a small fleet of 7 vehicles, and prefer to focus on longer distance, where the comfort of Mercedes Benz is in a league of its own.

Many people just think about booking a taxi to get to the airport from Nottingham, for business, pleasure or corporate travel.
This is fine if its a short distance Nottingham airport transfer, but what if your going to be stuck in the car for 2 or 3 hours for Nottingham to Heathrow, or Nottingham to Gatwick airports!!!
Is the taxi going to be suitable, has it got enough luggage space, does the driver know the route, and alternative routes if there are traffic issues, accidents, or just chaotic rush hour.

These are things travellers need to be wary about, and consider your decisions.
Nottingham Chauffeurs VIP & Minibuses were established back in April 2007 as Posh Car Ltd just to focus on long distance airport transfers and chauffeur services.
Although initially set up for business clients, we quickly became popular for our clients private airport transfers, then referrals to their families and friends.
This quickly escalated in to holiday customers bookings us very often, when we asked clients, where they found us, many said we were referred to them.
Reasons became obvious quickly, consistency in service, spacious Mercedes Benz saloons and minibuses, but most of all, experienced airport transfers chauffeur drivers Nottingham, Derby, Ilkeston and Loughborough.

We only carry out 2 or 3 jobs per day usually, as they can be long distance, so cars are kept in excellent condition, travel is usually pre-planned and pre-booked, so your drivers know well in advance of his work schedule, this means unlike taxi drivers who might be coming to the end of a 10 or 12 hour shift collecting you, our drivers are frequently well rested, making travel more relaxing.
Many cars carry little extras to help make your travel more comfortable, like water, WiFi, mints, magazines, tissues, these are things you do not get in taxis usually.
But most important, its drivers who specialise in long distance driving and airport transfers.
We think we are competitive to taxis rates, and know we are cheaper than some taxi companies, but your getting a far better value experience, often for £5 or £10 more than a taxi
LET US QUOTE YOUR TRAVEL
kev@posh-car.com

Minibus Chauffeurs VIP are able to provide Executive Mercedes minibuses and E-class saloons for London Heathrow Airport Transfers from Derby, Nottingham and the whole of the East Midlands.
Our services are available to business, corporate and leisure travellers, should you require a prestige Mercedes car for a business trip or a spacious MPV for your family or business group transfer, our London Heathrow airport transfer service is tailored to suit your travel requirements.
Leaving you to relax and watch the miles drift by while we take care of the driving. So you arrive at London Heathrow Airport relaxed, in ample time for your onward travel and flight.

Nottingham to London Heathrow airport
Let us take the strain of driving to the airport of your choice. London Heathrow from Nottingham, Beeston, Long Eaton, Wollaton, Ilkeston, Kimberley, Giltbrook, Draycott, Bramcote, Mansfield, Hucknall, Bulwell, Arnold, Gedling, Mapperley, The Park Estate Nottingham, Nuthall, Aspley or any Nottingham district. We tailor our quotes based on your location and choice of airport, but as we focus on mostly long distance, we find London Heathrow Airport our most frequent enquiry.We offer a Meet & Greet service at airport arrivals for flights landing 24/7 365 days a year.
Airport Meet & Greet incurs a charge for car parking, due to some overseas clients taking over an hour to clear customs and immigration, but the importance of providing this service is essential for overseas clients arriving outside standard UK office hours.We also offer a CALL & GREET service for some airports, where clients call us and your chauffeur will meet in a designated area within 10 minutes, this is perfect for our frequent UK based business or leisure clients who clear customs and immigration much quicker.
This service is FREE at some airports or incurs a small fee at others of no more than £3.00, keeping client charges to a minimum. If you need reliability, professional airport transfers and comfortable and spacious MPV’s or saloon cars in Nottingham, then you’re looking in the right place with Posh Car Ltd. We have an extensive client base covering Football players, Celebrities, MP’s, Company Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors, staff travel, holiday travellers and global company accounts covering many sectors of well known business brands.
We have seen our leisure and holiday client base grow too, due to Nottingham clients wanting to know what vehicle type they are booking and that their chauffeur drivers are experienced enough to know routes and airports ensuring a relaxing and stress free day of travel.
Mercedes E-class saloons are also available for individual clients or couples, where the additional cost of minibuses can be reduced for saloon cars.
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Cruise terminal transfers are not our busiest work, but we get about a dozen per year.
This is a long transfer of around 4 hours, possibly longer if going through heavy rush hour period.
We have far more cruise clients travelling from Heathrow to Miami for Caribbean cruises.

Our client base for this work seems to be retired, semi retired or wealthier clients, cruises can be very expensive.

We do get short 3 or 4 day cruise clients going out of Southampton or those wishing to do New York or Mediterranean cruises for a week or 2.

I’ve only done 4 days myself and loved it on the P & O Arora to Brugge and Amsterdam.
Highly recommend this as a test to see if you have sea legs.

We are happy to quote from Nottingham or across the region for Cruise Terminal travel.
www.nottinghamchauffeursvip.com for maximum comfort and professional service.

We chauffeurs suffer the same challenges as any driver using motorways and the roadworks that seem never ending there.

As a Nottingham based chauffeurs, we use the M1 very frequently, although I personally try to avoid it as much as possible during peak southbound traffic in the mornings, and northbound in the late afternoons.
But, Luton airport makes this impossible 🙁
Like today, but I was fortunate to have a client going there for 5:30am, so I missed the worse southbound.
On my return home, J14/J12 south was solid due to yet another accident. A constant hazard for time critical travel to airports.
When advising clients a collection time outbound, I like to add a little time on except the very early mornings.
Roadworks, Accidents, weather or just pure bad driving from some make all journeys a little hazardous.
It’s the experience that long distance chauffeurs like www.nottinghamchauffeursvip.com have that makes the difference to some less experienced taxi drivers.
In 10 years I’ve only had 1 client miss a flight, and that wasn’t my fault, the client asked for a tight collection time, then was almost an hour late coming out of a meeting, they were 40 minutes late for check in (Derby to Heathrow on a late Friday afternoon)
They apologised to me, which was nice, but I still felt guilty and disappointed they missed their flight, even if I wasn’t responsible.
Nottingham to Heathrow preferred route depending on time of day, or day of week.
M1/M25 off peak weekdays and mornings weekend
M1/M42/M40/M25 busy weekday and weekend day times.
M1/M69/A45/A46/M40/M25 longer route, but good through morning rush hours, nice weekend too.
M40 is a much nicer scenic route with far more countryside either side of motorway.
Enjoy your driving when you can.